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Cop Block Blogger Sentenced to Prison for Threats Against Police

A former Texoma man has been sentenced to Federal prison in Las Vegas after making death threats to FBI agents and officers in Carter County, OK, and Colorado Springs, CO, on his anti-police Facebook page known as "Cop Block," reports KTEN.

Dustin McCaskill, 33, was sentenced to 12 months in prison Thursday with three years of supervised release which will include restricted computer access, regular drug tests, and mental health evaluations.

He was arrested in Las Vegas by the FBI in January and pleaded guilty to "interstate communications with intent to extort" in June, KTEN reports.

Scanner audio captured an officer’s account of what happened at the scene, CWBChicago reports: “Ten people surrounded me, indicating that they had firearms. And one person pulled him away from me, holding his waist, indicating that he would use a firearm against me.”

There were so many police officers, sheriff’s deputies and Highway Patrol troopers that the court appearance had to be moved out of Justice Court to Judge John Larson’s Courtroom Number Three on the third floor of the Missoula County Courthouse.

The vehicle pursuit ended in the town of Kittitas where Deputy Thompson was backed up by Officer Benito Chavez. The suspect exited the vehicle and exchanged shots with the two law enforcement officers.